John Warner

It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel.

By an accident of fate, I recently found myself reading a couple of previously unread (by me) Philip Roth novels just as a New York Times columnist was wondering why...

Hannah Pittard's "If You Love It, Let It Kill You" is funny, searching, anarchic and ultimately somewhat unexpectedly and satisfyingly open-hearted.

The CPL has a 2025 survey to better understand what people want from their local library.

"Things in Nature Merely Grow" is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,” the abyss marked by the deaths of her children.

With “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams has crafted a book that manages to satisfy as narrative, literary analysis and cultural criticism.

There have been two recent deaths of writers who did very different things in their work and that I encountered at two very different times in my life who now...

The latest from Rob Hart, Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott are three very different books that will keep you reading through the end.

The Institute of Museum and Library Service gives grants that make institutions such as zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and, of course, libraries capable of providing programming to the public.

Jess Walter, author of the just about to be released “So Far Gone,” is one of my favorite contemporary novelists.